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| Sometimes it is impossible to imagine what it's like to live with
physical limitations unless you have experienced them directly. I have
great compassion for those people whose LASIK left them with
complications. But it is difficult to imagine what that is like on a
day to day basis without remedy.
I had a glimpse into what it must be like. After getting dilating
drops, I had huge starbursts during the day. Glare coming in from the
window from a cloudy but bright sky made me feel queasy. Overhead lights
sat oppressively along the top of my visual field. I couldn't read up
close without reading glasses, and I had to wear tinted readers to look
at my computer screen.
But dilating drops wear off. LASIK doesn't.
It must be devastating for people who live with these kinds of results
on a daily basis. I hope you find relief.
I'm feeling some survivor's guilt. I guess that's why I stick around
this NG even though I'm happy with my outcome.
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| Glenn - USAEyes.org 2005-06-22, 5:53 pm |
| I have a similar difficulty in that I have not yet experienced the
process of refractive surgery. While I can be empathetic with a
patient's concerns, I cannot relate a first-person account of the
process.
Empathy is an important component of understanding, but is not the
same as experience.
Glenn Hagele
Executive Director
USAEyes.org
"Consider and Choose With Confidence"
Email to glenn dot hagele at usaeyes dot org
http://www.USAEyes.org
http://www.ComplicatedEyes.org
I am not a doctor.
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| Ragnar 2005-06-22, 5:54 pm |
| The worst part of the surgery is the applanation plate. That was
several seconds of pressure I could have done without. The actual
laser ablation is completely painless.
I wonder if there are lasers that can cut through bone. That would be
a big improvement in brain surgery were they get into the skull by
drilling several holes with a DRILL and then using a saw threaded
through the holes to cut out a chunk of bone. That sloppy method of
removing the section of bone also results in that piece of bone dying.
That's not a big deal as long as the skull has stopped growing.
The malcontents have an advatage in brain surgery. Instead of having
to cut through the skull, their brains can be accessed through their
glutious maximus.
On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 16:55:45 GMT, Glenn - USAEyes.org
<glenn.hageleSTOPSPAM@USAEyes.org> wrote:
>I have a similar difficulty in that I have not yet experienced the
>process of refractive surgery. While I can be empathetic with a
>patient's concerns, I cannot relate a first-person account of the
>process.
>
>Empathy is an important component of understanding, but is not the
>same as experience.
>
>Glenn Hagele
>Executive Director
>USAEyes.org
>
>"Consider and Choose With Confidence"
>
>Email to glenn dot hagele at usaeyes dot org
>
>http://www.USAEyes.org
>http://www.ComplicatedEyes.org
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>I am not a doctor.
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| Geeeeeeeeeeeese Rags!!
I haven't been in here for a while and this was the first thread I happened
to come across.
It started off with RT mentioning what it might be like to have had a bad
Lasik experience and ended with you going on about brain surgery - drilling
holes in someones head etc.!!!
Nothing changes around here does it !!
Wal
"Ragnar" <ragnarsuomi@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:6bnjb1p20kurivrog76oriv4hlnoqupman@4ax.com...
> The worst part of the surgery is the applanation plate. That was
> several seconds of pressure I could have done without. The actual
> laser ablation is completely painless.
>
> I wonder if there are lasers that can cut through bone. That would be
> a big improvement in brain surgery were they get into the skull by
> drilling several holes with a DRILL and then using a saw threaded
> through the holes to cut out a chunk of bone. That sloppy method of
> removing the section of bone also results in that piece of bone dying.
> That's not a big deal as long as the skull has stopped growing.
> The malcontents have an advatage in brain surgery. Instead of having
> to cut through the skull, their brains can be accessed through their
> glutious maximus.
>
>
> On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 16:55:45 GMT, Glenn - USAEyes.org
> <glenn.hageleSTOPSPAM@USAEyes.org> wrote:
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| In article <d9grar$cnt$1@domitilla.aioe.org>,
"Wal" <notmewally@hotmail.com.au> wrote:
> Nothing changes around here does it !!
>
> Wal
Hey Wal
How's it going? Any improvement with your halos?
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| Hi RT,
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> Hey Wal
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> How's it going? Any improvement with your halos?
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> --
> ~RT
I'm going fine thanks. My Halo's are pretty much the same. Sometimes quite
annoying. I tried using Alphagan one night a while ago. I didn't really
notice a big improvement so think I will probably have to live with them.
Glen once said they may be correctable by wearing some glasses so I guess I
should look into that. Bottom line is I am still extremely happy I had Lasik
and the halo's are only a problem while driving at night. Most the time at
night in lit up buildings I don't notice them.
Glad your still happy with your results.
See ya
Regards
Wal
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| Ilana 2005-06-28, 11:08 pm |
| Haloes are usually from spherical aberration, which is not correctable with
glasses, Glenn. Can't believe
you have annoying haloes, have problems driving at night and keep yourself
inside well lit buildings. Then
claim to be happy with your results? I guess the damage is done, and
rationalization is much less unpleasant
than reality for some people.
"Wal" <notmewally@hotmail.com.au> wrote in message
news:d9i42a$8oh$1@domitilla.aioe.org...
> Hi RT,
>
>
> I'm going fine thanks. My Halo's are pretty much the same. Sometimes quite
> annoying. I tried using Alphagan one night a while ago. I didn't really
> notice a big improvement so think I will probably have to live with them.
> Glen once said they may be correctable by wearing some glasses so I guess
> I
> should look into that. Bottom line is I am still extremely happy I had
> Lasik
> and the halo's are only a problem while driving at night. Most the time at
> night in lit up buildings I don't notice them.
>
> Glad your still happy with your results.
>
> See ya
> Regards
> Wal
>
>
>
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| serebel 2005-06-28, 11:08 pm |
| Here is Ilana again with her doom and gloom scenerio. Next she'll post
that ones eyes will fall out. She sounds like that psycho, Broken Eyes
on the SE scamsite.
SErebel
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| Glenn - USAEyes.org 2005-06-28, 11:08 pm |
| Spherical aberration is a Zernike polynomial term for a mathematical
representation of a higher order aberration measured with a wavefront
aberrometer.
While people with halo or similar night vision problems may have
elevated spherical aberration, night vision problems can be caused by
a variety of reasons including simple hyperopia (farsighted,
longsighted) or myopia (nearsighted, shortsighted) vision. Wal may be
a bit over or undercorrected.
If the spherical aberration is due to undercorrection at the periphery
of the cornea, corrective lenses that fully correct the undercorrected
periphery can reduce or eliminate night vision problems.
If contact lenses are used (especially RGP lenses) the cornea can be
reshaped to provide longer vision benefit.
Glenn Hagele
Executive Director
USAEyes.org
"Consider and Choose With Confidence"
Email to glenn dot hagele at usaeyes dot org
http://www.USAEyes.org
http://www.ComplicatedEyes.org
I am not a doctor.
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